Despite the persistence of unemployment in this “jobless recovery,” the White House has – to the derision of many – persistently claimed that the ERA created/saved? 2 million jobs. Officials from a laundry list of agencies will fan out across the country tomorrow in community meetings and speaking tours to drive home this claim, The Caucus reports.

I believe that many jobs are simply lost – and if the recovery act saved any jobs, let’s be sure they were worth saving. As Nouriel Roubini reminded us all in an op-ed late last year, “recent studies suggest that a quarter of U.S. jobs are fully out-sourceable over time to other countries.”